For the week leading up to the release of my novel, Aristeia: Revolutionary Right, I am going to give blog readers a look at the cover art evolution process. Oliver from Fantasio Fine Arts was amazing to work with. He has some other great stuff up on his website. This Read more…
Well, tomorrow’s the big day, SWTOR begins Early Game Access. Since I registered my pre-order key the morning it started, I expect I’ll be able to get in tomorrow. If not, then WAY to many people were up and ordering the game overnight. I face a tough dilemma. There is Read more…
Guess what loyal blog readers, here’s an opportunity to get a free advance e-book copy of my new novel, Aristeia: Revolutionary Right. In exchange for reviewing the book on Amazon and a few other sites within 2 weeks of the books release, you can get a free copy. If you Read more…
Originally, I wanted to have Book 2 complete with at least one round of editing done before the end of the year. Then I ended up throwing out the 65,000 words I did for the first alpha version. The story was not going where I wanted it to go and Read more…
After a marathon last couple of days revising my book based on editor feedback, I sent what will hopefully be the last version back to her last night. It includes a heavily cut beginning and a completely new ending. With that done, I decided to take a break today and Read more…
Things are progressing slower than I would like on Book 2. I am only at around 52,000 words and roughly half way through the story. And, I just got book 1 back from the editor so progress will slow even more. But, I just got Book 1 back from the Read more…
Over the last week I’ve been trying to iron out what the tax rules will be for me as I go into the book writing business. I’ll have no income of my own this year, so haven’t thought about. But with an actual plan in place for getting the book Read more…
Last night I signed a contract to have my book published through Grey Gecko Press. While this is a small start-up publisher, I’ve been sold on the founder’s, Jason, vision. GGP is very much a hybrid between the traditional big house publisher and self-publication. At first I was skeptical of Read more…
I recently went to a meeting of local sci-fi/fantasy writers. All more or less amateurs. It was a meet-up of people who like writing, some who want to eventually get published, some who just do it for fun. It was a lot of fun and I met some really nice Read more…
I’m not sure how I feel about the news that Amazon is trying to form add a “Netflix like” service for e-books to it’s Amazon Prime. On the consumer side, since I’m already an Amazon Prime member, having free access to a bunch of books might be cool. Any time Read more…